Weather in these parts was generally terrible yesterday, and I fled the office an hour and a half early to beat (some of) the desperation traffic. I didn’t realize how terrible it was, though, until I pulled up the Mesonet last night:

When an 80-percent probability seems “slight,” you have definitely had a bad day.

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Y’all can send it down here — our pond is starting to go down again after remaining near full pool all summer — but we might need to spring for extra refrigeration to get the locals off the roads long enough for gas prices to go back down.

I’m a bit sick over the paroxysms of glee some of the weather forecasters are going into here over the alleged sleet we are to get tomorrow and Monday.

If I am stuck here eating cereal for my Thanksgiving dinner instead of visting family….well, I hope those guys wind up paying for their glee. Bad weather is bad weather but the dudes don’t have to be so EXCITED about it.

I can’t even work up any enthusiasm for a White Christmas, given the way the calendar falls this year: it’s a farging Wednesday, which means at the very least I’ll have to work both Tuesday and Thursday.

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The Wintry Mix weather sounds like a typical spring afternoon where I come from. I always love it when they say, “We’re getting a little relief, the temperature’s going up to -15.” And the forecast for the Grey Cup in Regina today is for temps around 0, “a nice day for a late-fall football game.” It was a lot colder than that in Regina yesterday. The history of the Grey Cup game includes a lot of bad weather.